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The perfect place for growing your skills
"We are leaders of the free and open source software industry"
Savoir-faire Linux recognizes your skills and creates the conditions to nurture and expand them without compromise. Throughout its history, Savoir-faire Linux has placed its teams expertise at the core of its service offering. We have developed a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration that allows us to learn from each other and reach out to our communities.
Antoine Girard-Vallée
Systèmes Embarqués
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. - Frank Herbert
Holder of a degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke, I joined Savoir-faire Linux to take up the challenges of embedded projects after a first professional experience on an embedded Voip project (telecommunication analysis).
Tasks
- Linux kernel driver development and maintenance
- Installation of custom distribution generators (Yocto and Buildroot)
- Application programming in C/C ++
Yannick Adanminakou
Administration
« Make thy thought an empire...Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. » - Kasidah, Richard F. Burton
Holding a master’s degree in e-Commerce, I am presently the Account Manager and Head of Training Department at Savoir-faire Linux. I am passionate about corporate finance, digital technologies and knowledge economy fields. My vocational experience and formal education have helped me better understand the interrelationships between digital technologies and firm-level economic performance. I am always curious to anticipate the impacts of the digital transformation strategies in the broader context of society.
Tasks
- Customer relationship management for severals departments
- New projects development and contracts management
- Corporate training planning and follow-up
Lauranne Vera
Digital innovation, web and mobility
« People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. » - John C. Maxwell
Graduate in Computer Engineering and Organizational Management, I started in Savoir-Faire Linux as an intern in mobile development. Now, I work on continuous improvement of my colleagues' work practices while helping them manage web projects. My goal: to create an environment that encourages the professional development of my colleagues!
Tasks
- Collect employees feedback on their daily work
- Help set up natural problem-solving processes in teams
- Promote the relationship between employees and management
- Web projects management
Sébastien Blin
Équipe Jami
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tseu.
Holder of a Double Diploma Master respectively in computer science at UQAC in Quebec and Computer science engineering in Rennes, I am passionate about free software and robotics. I started as an intern in 2017 at Savoir-faire Linux within the Jami team, then I became a Jami developer and free software consultant.
Tasks
- Management of all aspects related to the connectivity of the application (file transfers, Sip calls, etc.)
- Development of the client library
- Code review and tests
Mojgan Mahaki
Infrastructures and systems Architecture
« If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together » - African proverb
Holding a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, I joined Savoir-faire Linux in 2016 as a trainee. Later, I became a GNU/Linux system administrator and a free software consultant. I gradually took charge of internal IT support activities and performed tasks such as installing workstations, preparing training digital environments and dealing with various corporate infrastructure servers.
Tasks
- GNU / Linux servers administration (RedHat, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian)
- Infrastructure and Linux environment configuration (employees workstations, servers, training environment)
- Employees and clients IT support
- Company Directory Administration (Open LDAP, FusionDirectory)
- Maintenance of virtual platforms (KVM)
Jacob Cook
Digital innovation, web and mobility
« Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. » - Seneca
Trained in Web Development, I am presently the Vice President of the Digital Innovation, Web and Mobility department. Truly passionate about creating quality software in the free and open-source field, I am particularly interested in decentralization of traditional networks and communication methods. My experience as the maintainer of several open-source software projects led me to work for Savoir-faire Linux where I manage specific projects for clients, with the same rigor and interest.
Tasks
- Oversight of the Web and Mobile teams
- Coaching and management of team HR
- Crafting service offers and setting technical direction
- Django and Node.js software development
Khaled Bali
Integration platforms
« I gave a party for time-travelers ... I sat there a long time, but no one came » - Stephen Hawking
Holding a master’s degree in computer engineering from Algeria and Canada, I’m currently working at Savoir-faire Linux as a Tech Lead within the Integration Platform team. Being part of Savoir-faire Linux since 2016, the challenges I have faced have continued to evolve and have allowed me to develop new skills in the open source environment.
Tasks
- Developement and management of Java and Liferay projects
- Team management
- Code review
Main contributions
- Design and specification of work machines (in Montreal and Rennes)
- Porting of a Zigbee stack to version 3.0 for a connected product
- TR DESIGN co-founder, creator of the leather goods brand FENOSKIN (Lyon, France)
- Developing e-commerce projects (e.g., web integration platform for supermarkets), ICI 2014, Côte d’Ivoire
- Development of an intercom using Ring.cx
- Spark the Change Montreal 2018
- Patchs in pjproject
- Patchs Resdbed
- Conference at FOSDEM
- Contributing to Persian translation of GNU Ring project
- Creation of a decentralized and self-hosted software platform: arkOS
- Creation of news aggregator https://slowne.ws/
- Maintainer of several open-source libraries, like python-nginx
- Volunteer in the Club Avenir association
- Montreal JavaUserGroup participant
- AstroMcGill workshops participant
